Guild Wars 2

Adrianna.3092:

wow awsome change… i love it.. now i can use deceptive evasion without it ruining my phantasms!!! wooo!!!

It has never ruined it… clones only destroy clones, phantasms only destroy phantasms if the 3 illusion limit is hit. Sometimes I wonder if people even pay attention while playing.

I am going to quote from the July 23rd, 2013 update notes:

AidanTaylor.3872:

• Healing Signet (Passive): Reworked the formula that this passive heal uses. At level 80, this skill goes from 392 healing per 3 seconds to 467 healing per 3 seconds with 1500 healing power.

To me it looks like they have designed it a bit differently (basically warriors should have 1/3 of the healing from the signet passive) and maybe even forgot about it since then?
Anyway, you can read it here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-July-23rd-2013

oZii.2864

That was a typo Jon P came into Warrior forums and stated it was a typo in the notes.

Turns out it was a typo. Well I hope they fix typos like that in the future.

Edit: then it also would be consistent with other passive health regenerations such as Regeneration (boon), Backpack Regenerator (engineer trait), and still stronger than Virtue of Resolve (guardian), Soothing Mist (elementalist).

ColinJohanson.2394:

Romo.3709:

-trainers teach skills quest-

I think this could have a lot of potential as well, depending on the ability it could even change up the game-play/experience.

The next challenge: We want to put as much content in the open world as possible, so you’re constantly running into other players and having great social experiences. This is one of the pillars of Gw2, and why we try and avoid instances as much as possible. How would you modify this system to work in the open world? (I see a lot of easy ways – skill point challenges are very similar to this, but it’s fun to ask you!)

It could work somewhat similar to how the Queen’s Gauntlet did?

Well, I don’t think I could come up with a new spot everyday as I already found a lot.
http://howellq.imgur.com/ for those interested, there are character albums (dyejobs for GuildWarsDyeJob subreddit – with a few funny photos) but the exploration pictures are in the Traveling and Just Playing galleries.

Well of Power is a stunbreaker. But cannot be used while launched, blown out, etc. I mean what. Is it only me who finds this disturbing? I thought there was an update that changed this, maybe this skill was left out? And why?

Edit: it breaks stuns but not blowouts

Happens with any skill that makes you move towards big model targets. Like Ride the Lightning.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zealot's_Speed#Trivia

Check that link.

I’m totally stupid for this kinda stuff but checking out any event websites (such as http://divinitysreach.com/ ) there are only a few server names in there.

Ugh, go try the Fire Shaman in Iron Marches with 5. You will not think like that again He kind of resets really fast in the Fire Elemental stage 5 might be able to do it but not 5 randomers. Organized, knowledgable group, maybe.

clint.5681:

Immobilize stacking is a huge problem and needs to be fixed. Im not sure how anyone thought this was a good idea. It is litereally ruining pvp for me.

Weew right, that’s a reason now people. Fix it cause it’s ruining pvp for poor Rangir Dangir. I think this has totally blown the devs’ minds and now they are hastily workin on it. :P

There are things that I have to point out, which if you Devs miss while doing these changes, it won’t be balancing but nerfing some of the professions.
I suppose you are meant to weaken the Vigor using but then where is the consistency? Can’t see Vigorous Precision (Guardian, Honor 5), Critical Infusion (Mesmer, Dueling 5), Renewing Stamina (Elementalist, Arcana VI) on the list. Also I always wondered why Guardian, Mesmer and Ranger had minor Adept traits affecting Endurance regeneration while Elementalist has it as a major Adept trait (not to mention Engineer’s Adrenal Implant, later on this).

Signet of Stamina (Warrior) has to be reviewed too, but if its 50% Endurance regeneration boost is reduced then the cooldown has to be reduced too, so players are encouraged to use its active effect, thus making up for the weaker passive effect.
There is also Adrenal Implant for Engineers (Tools XII) but as it is a GM trait, it will definitely have to be moved down if nerfed. Vigorous Scepter (Elementalist, Arcana VII) is kinda okay maybe, as it works only in combat?

Here is a great tutorial on how to fix it, in 3 steps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_laaxl1EKqQ#t=53s

As far as I know certain elite skills that transform you (Tornado, Rampage, Elixir X, Lich Form, Plague, Avatar of Melandru) grant you Stability. Which is useful, as the player has no access to their utility skills while being transformed, thus not having an option to break disables. Now the problem is, that this Stability is applied only at the beginning of the skill and if a foe removes it the Elite becomes pretty much useless. Have you ever seen someone knock down a tornado? No, right?

My suggestion is that these forms should grant stability every 1, 3 or 5 seconds (probably the latter is the best) to ensure the elite skill is not wasted by being cc’d after a successful Stability removal.

I keep posting bug reports or suggestions but I have already learned to not to give a candy about not being answered to it. I did what I could I won’t be crying over it. I don’t care anymore if they don’t care.

Turns out from player reports, that only players get it who have done a given number of achievements of the Scarlet LS. Still I don’t see the point to have them sent to new characters at all!

TheUltimateBackStabber.4863:

I notice people linking it in chat but I never got one if I remember correctly.

Hmm that’s odd! When did you buy the game and when did you create a character the last time?

So why do new characters still get Scarlet’s Gift?
I can only imagine new players getting these on their first character, going “oooh nice a gift, what does it- BAM!”

Proper welcome.

Edit: so players without achivements in the QJ and/or CC achievement sections don’t get them, so new players either. I and others still don’t need them on alts.

I’m almost sure there aren’t many people who are working on the Customized Soundtrack feature and I understand why: the game has a built-in Soundtrack so it’s not really a priority to work on it. However a small change would be really favourable. The problem with how it works at the moment is that you can’t switch the soundtrack played ingame, you have to close the client and remove/paste the custom soundtrack to switch back to original/switch to self-made playlists. It would be lovely if we had a tickbox at the Audio Options to enable self-made soundtrack and ticking off would disable it. Personally I love the original soundtrack but in WvW it can be a bit boring. In PvE I love the area themed music and the fact that sometimes it plays Guild Wars music, which is not only great itself but has a huge nostalgic feeling to it.
Also I’m not exactly sure how exactly playlists trigger: Battle is said to be starting when you are fighting with 3 or more entities but I’m not sure if it is 3 foes or 3 entities around you in combat. So in WvW it might not even play when doing 2v2, 1v1 or 2v1. Also BossBattle plays when World Boss events are going on but if I remember correctly it doesn’t when fighting a champion or a really big amount of foes (zerg vs zerg in WvW). Not to mention the odd bug that BossBattle (along with MainMenu) doesn’t randomize songs but plays them in playlist order.

Looking forward to any answers maybe even from devs, though I won’t really get sore at them if they don’t. If I were them I wouldn’t want to read much of the forum either…

Sell the ToT bags, buy skin from the money you get. Think. Harder. Next. Time. Please. Before writing anything.

Edit: favourite part is where you have been playing gw2 for years. In plural.

Perfectly what Sitkaz said. With character bound WvW ranks this wouldn’t work. Why not even be able to buy Priority tickets (which put you on the top of the queue) for real money then?

So there is this cave filled with spiders in Caledon Forest, and you can pick Redcaps in there. Picking them makes you grow or shrink in size for a short duration. I was wondering if you could introduce this effect by consumables (maybe even Endless ones!) just for longer durations. Like 5-15 minutes, and maybe the Endless version could work like the Endless support tokens used at Cutthroat Politics, in which case if you double clicked the button, it removed the support buff from you. This way using the Endless consumable would return you to your original size, while the regular 1-use ones wouldn’t. Of course you couldn’t use it in WvW or PvP, that would be just nonsense. Not sure how it could be rewarded though. Maybe MF recipes? Artificer? Meta-achievement reward?

Draco.2806:

Yep, you’re right.

Gah. Now just to re-generate every single playlist…

I made them with iTunes and they have the full path so I just had to throw them over there. Works out for me.

Mjölnir being a pretty expensive weapon lacks the electrified animation on killed mobs. Same goes for Foefire weapons (they could put the enemies on fire when they die, just like the Fiery Dragon sword, maybe even blue ones? you know guardian flame.) and Jormag’s Breath. I bet Volcanus or Titan’s Vengeance doesn’t have those animations assigned either.

Why?

Some guildies have them right though. Maybe it’s a setting issue? I can set everything to highest, except textures, which I can only set to Medium. Maybe they look properly ghostly with High?

A temporary fix is to switch maps. Grab a Hall of Monuments Portal Stone (wiki it if you don’t know where and you happen to not to have one) and you can switch map with it. Or I guess logging out to character selection is a fix as well.

It happens when the Bloodlust buff is removed and instantly reapplied. Not really sure why it happens, usually it is removed and within a small fraction of a second it is reapplied like 5 to 10 times. When there are not too many players it isn’t causing issues but when a map is queued from all 3 sides (=full) then it lags really badly.

Draco.2806:

Because mine aren’t working.

Also, local.dat now resides in “\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Guild Wars 2” for some reason, which resets all your custom settings on update.

Alright, just drop your Music folder in Documents/Guild Wars 2 where your screenshots will be from now on.

Draco.2806:

Trilla.4109:

Uh, you do know you can play music with another program in the background right?

Custom Playlists, until now, have supported switching out different music files based on whether you’re in or out of combat, whether it’s day or night, whether you’re in a boss fight or at the crafting screen. Winamp doesn’t do that.

But, uh, yeah. Switching game-critical paths seems like a rather terrible mistake. Brings to mind that one time EVE Online devs managed to wipe out their player’s boot sector with a small typo in in the update program…

Yep that’s why I preferred it over just playing music in the background.

If you bought 9 of the 10 you need why did you sell them? I don’t get your point. You need to have them all at the same time.

Bumpeh bunneh. Anyone, any answers on how this change could have happened without telling players? Was it even planned?

Probably the new dc-monster-chatcode. Dw they are working on it.

selan.8354:

why would u want your money back? u wanted to use an op unbalanced rune, so that is the risk. my class actually benefits from it regardless as my class is actually a confusion class and not an interruption spammer that abuses this rune. im sure anet didnt intend to give every class with interrupts in the game more viable confusion than the actual confusion class, mesmer. otherwise i’d like to have a warriors healing signet rune, so i can heal the same way or even better than a warrior, or a deathshroud rune.

Engineers have lots of confusion without this rune too you know. I would even dare to say more than mesmers. So that’s not really true.

Heh I have stopped reporting bugs like in Jan/Feb. I got bored with it. Sometimes I still report once every while but meh.

You were notified beforehand there will be an update incoming.

As it was working before… Can’t see why make this change and why not even mention it in the update notes or somewhere else.

That seems odd. (yes this is a bump)

I just use Advanced search to forum root with Google… at least that works.

Step 1: Fix! Step 2: It! Step 3: FIXIT!

If they nerf it I want my materials back from which I have created the 7 runes for my warrior which I have built around interrupt confusing. If I get them back, I’m fine with the nerf.

This is so lame… just started using it again today and it’s broken already. Tried placing the music folder there but it’s a no-go.

It happens when 6th effect from Superior Rune of the Pack procs too.

First select item then the recipient from the chat/roster/party/friendlist.

It could be 1 hour too, I don’t see why it couldn’t be. Not just this, the Molten Berserker too. Right that one is a fixed transform so 5 minutes for that one is kinda okay. For 1-use tonics I guess 5-15 minutes is okay so people buy/make them. But really if it’s an endless, does it really matter? Also less transforming actions are less load for servers :P Just consider it!

LostInSmoke.2590:

I think most of the people in this thread complaining never played anything in the 8bit generation or earlier. Not everyone thinks candyland-easy games are fun. That’s why ultra-hard games exist in the first place.

If it can’t be facerolled in zerk then it must be reaaaallly bad.

Moss.5371:

Josh Foreman.8250:

blah blah

That explains a lot. You do indeed sound sadistic, which is troubling. What’s the point of investing this much time and effort of development in content that only a handful will enjoy AND come here and brag about it? Can only be sadism. Maybe you could try to make more popular content for the people that bought your game(1), which certainly didn’t buy it expecting this.

(1) New permanent content such as areas, skills, classes, skins, dungeons.

I’ll try to follow your logic (watch out for sarcasm):
Why develop PvP when most people don’t play it, why add ascended crafting when only a handful of players “enjoy” grinding for it (haha what a joke). The list could go on with Legendaries, high level fractals and whatever else. Logic.

Could anyone do Double Trouble Theme? My musical hearing is not that good to make notes just by hearing and couldn’t find any sheets. (Edit: If anyone manages to get hold of a midi file, please link it too, can make notes from them! Thanks.
Edit2: title is What’s Goin’ on in Brazil)

Genavelle.9516:

I have all the current jps in the game completed…And with the massive number of people in this game who QQ about jump puzzles and beg for mesmer portals to get through them, I think that completing a full set of them really deserves to be rewarded with a special title. It would only be better if it could go to people who don’t port to the end of every puzzle, but clearly the game has no way to tell the difference.

If I had a title for this, it would be my favorite title ever..Like that one special title I would wear all the time despite any other titles I get

IKR, same here :P though I like my “Chosen”. Not many use it.

Septemptus.7164:

Quite easy, all needs to be done for the title. They arent that hard.
And YES, we need this meta achievment.
+1

The idea is not that bad also, yet title would be the best reward for me anyway.

Edited for clearance, problem is new puzzles. And yeah could give a title as well, they don’t have to be mutually exclusive

There have been players asking for a JP specific title for a long time now, and of course it’s not that easy to decide how many of them should be included in it.
As of the recent update we know that effects affecting the whole account are possible. So I was thinking if a fall damage halving passive effect could be awarded to those who complete this not-yet-existing meta achievement (it could be either a given amount of JPs or the “alpha set”, the ones existing since launch). Now I know there are traits for this BUT some have very undesirable side effects (engi grenade barrage… why would I want to stay in combat after falling by accidentally hitting something – same with most of the professions, generally I wouldn’t mind being in combat but as it slows movement down…) or on totally odd trait lines. This effect is mainly defensive yet it is on offensive lines for mesmers, necromancers, guardians (maybe warrior too, haven’t checked yet). And also the meta achievement would operate without the special effect granted by the trait.

Now it is possible to “award” attributes and effects via the achievement system this could be really considered.

Edit: the problem with determining the needed number is new puzzles.

I have got to several places like this (even the Collapse) and there are places which are fully designed yet closed off.

(Oh and didn’t know there are so many cover agents from devs amongst players )